Chapter 45 A New Threat Emerges

• The night was quiet. Cecilia sat on the balcony, gazing at the sky dotted with moon and stars. The beautiful woman had spent the whole day holed up in Charles’s lavish penthouse. Servants brought her food nonstop, but she barely touched it.
• Her appetite was gone, her mind plagued by worries. She desperately wanted to escape this reality, but fate wouldn’t allow it. Whatever came her way, she had to face it—though Charles was always out front, battling anyone who hurt her.
• “The servants say you hardly ate,” Charles said, appearing and sitting beside her.